Lena Waithe Quotes
There's so many other talented women of color who write funny things every day, and I want them to be recognized, I want them to have a seat at the table because we're out here.
Quotes to Explore
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.
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Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching a novel is 'Read like a butterfly, write like a bee', and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers.
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There's so many other talented women of color who write funny things every day, and I want them to be recognized, I want them to have a seat at the table because we're out here.
